Japanese Journal of Risk Analysis
Online ISSN : 2435-8436
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Crime and Punishment of the Phrase, Reputational Damages: What Shall We Think about Forced Release of “Tritiated Water”?
Jun SEKIZAWA
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS Advance online publication

Article ID: SRA-0398

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Recently attention is focused on the disposal of treated radioactively polluted water to the ocean from collapsed Fukushima nuclear power plant. Japanese government claiming safety of the treated water, is trying to mitigate “reputational damages” of Fukushima fishery people. However, there are real risks with the damaged plant, such as lowering of water level in the reactor vessel by a big earthquake early 2021. After the plant accident, Japanese government forced the Fukushima residents to leave their home towns by setting difficult-to-return zones, etc. Besides, Japanese government set new strict rules on radioactive pollution of foods. These regulations have caused difficult situations in living conditions of Fukushima people through long time evacuation and superfluous testing of many foods etc. Consequently, based on these critical governmental regulations, not only “reputational damages”, but real serious damages, are brought about to many people. Rules must be based on basic safe sciences and be reasonable in minimizing possible risks to people and the society. This paper is dedicated to the Ukrainian who suffer from unjustifiable war crime.

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